Posts by The BigYin 3083 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Mar 2008
If you use spaces, you impose you code preferences on to others.
If you use tabs, you leave it up to IDE setting on how code should be displayed and thus everyone can have their preference.
If you are using a space sensitive language (or config format), then quite frankly you deserve everthing you get!
I just wish Oracle and Microsoft would get into a room and make whatever changes are needed to allow VirtualBox and Hyper-V to co-exist.
Yes, in theory it works but in practice you get the turtle in the bottom right, and performance tanks. It can be resolved by disabling WSL2 and ensuring Hyper-V is fully disabled, but that is a bloody PITA.
VMWare seems to be able to make things work, not sure why Oracle/Microsoft can't do the same for VirtualBox. I would use VMWare, but I have found their networking and USB stacks to be utter garbage.
It shouldn't be different.
The desktop environment is providing the framework, the applications should use it. The only exception I can think of is if you are using an application that is geared towards a different desktop environment, then (and only then) you might need to update the option in a couple of places.
This is just MS ramming their shonky crap down people's throats, as ever. I hope the EU boots right in the bank balance for it. Not like the UK will do anything.
Pet hate: Exception messages like "Could not connect".
Could not connect to what? What was the error code?
Yes, I know perfectly well that vomiting a stack on to the screen is a security risk and even if you don't want to reveal (potentially internal) URLs to the user - PUT THEM IN THE DAMNED LOGS!
How the ever loving hell does crap like this possibly merit a patent? The ability to rotoscope (which is all this really is) is freakin' old. Older than me, and that is saying something!
Also, just no. NO! I buy the game, I own the copy, I don't ever want to see any ad for anything. End of discussion. (Mandatory on-line can also bite me.)
I will just stick to indy or sendhand off-line games, with maybe some Sauerbraten for online japes.
The training data contained GPL'd code.
The GPL (with few exceptions) applies to derived works.
Copilot can this emt GPL'd code.
Thus any product that used Copilot generated code may be subject to the GPL.
This is not a problem with the GPL, it's a fine license and ensures software freedom.
The problem is bullies like MS not respecting others' licenses.
> "The British owners of 74,000 suspended .eu domain names have been given an additional three months to change their registration details to an address in Europe before they are permanently taken away."
This kind of language really grinds my gears. The UK is IN Europe and will continue to be in Europe until plate tectonic decree otherwise. What the author should have said was "... to an adress in the EU...".
This continualy "othering" of Europe and not viewing ourselves as the Europeans we are is IMHO one of the many things that resulted in Brexit.
Please be more careful, language matters.
The meatsacks are easier to "hack" one-on-one perhaps but it does not scale well at all. However if you hack the hard/software once, you can hack them all. This scales in a way that meatsack fiddling does not.
Missing ballots, again, does not scale well. It can become obvious that things are missing and recounts/revotes taken. If you hack the hard/software no vote is missing, you simply alter it to what you want. This is much harder to spot.
That said, mail voting is the most likely form of meat-space voting to be fiddled with; often in places of multiple occupancy where one person can collect the ballots and vote on them all. This happens in some communities more than others.
This is not an argument for e-voting, but one for reforming the USAian electoral system.
E-voting is simply too wide-open for abuse to be used for anything serious. Electing the captain of your golf club? Fine. The ruler of your nation? No way!
Using IT to help with the count is fine, but at the end of the day it needs to be meat-sacks and paper counts as corrupting that simply doesn't scale well and by the time you have a conspiracy large enough to affect a country, said conspiracy will collapse under its own weight.
The author handwaves away far too many problems. For example: How does F/OSS voting software help when the hardware is crippled by an exploit in IME? How do you verify that the F/OSS software you think is running, is actually running in an unaltered state and hasn't been rootkited into oblivion? You don't, not with any certainty anyway, not unless to are prepared to disassemble the machine, check every chip, scan the drives and check every byte and only then begin the count. Rinse and repeat for every single link in the chain. That doesn't sound like an improvement to me.
E-voting is a horrifically bad idea and should never be used as part of a serious democratic process. I really wish people would stop pushing it.
Well...OK...UTF-8 encoded Plain Text is king but whatever.
If your mail client HTML-ises a plain text email then, I this is just my opinion, it the email client that is to blame. End of.
Email should be plain text. HTML leads to too many quirks, rending problems, bugs, attack vectors and bloats email size.
Outside of the vomit that is Outlook, every email client I have used will respond in plain text to a plain text email, allow you to specify plain text, RTF, HTML or whatever in a few clicks and has easily accessible defaults in the setting. If this is hard then either you are a bit thick or (more likely) your email client is utter garbage.
Most people don't care about a great many things. I, for example, don't care about the habitat of the Lesser Crested Grebe Warbler because I don't know I should care, but that doesn't mean protecting it isn't a goo thing. (I made that species up just for illustrative purposes).
Most people don't know how the Internet works,most people don't know they should care about the ".org" privatisation but that doesn't mean we shouldn't protect it.
This whole line of argument is some weight variant of argumentum ad populum.
Personal use of office equipment is almost always permitted "within reason". No one is going to bat an eye-lid if you print of a sheet or two for personal need (or use the work PC for a personal email). When it starts to disrupt the day job or incur significant costs, then you'll get a warning.
"Sky (still) get your money, you get (I assume) a better mix of programming for you."
Company sells package A in country 1 for X. Company also sells package A in country 2 for Y. X is 2Y. The company wants to sell as many at price X as possible because there is more profit.
Geo-locks are one tool that lets them do this. So the company will get upset if that is removed. Under TTIP they would probably sue the countries involved (and win).
It seems that "free trade" only applies to the seller, not the purchaser.
"There is also the competition aspect, why should you pay more when the content is available elsewhere for cheaper."
That's true of everything, but the companies want one-way free trade. i.e. they can sell everywhere, but you can only buy where the company decides.
Which isn't free trade at all.
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